00:00Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Patel, before you joined the FBI, you had very strong opinions
00:05about what the FBI was hiding regarding Jeffrey Epstein. In a September 2023 interview with
00:10Glenn Beck, you said the Black Book is under the, quote, direct control of the director of the FBI.
00:16In December 2023, you said, let us know who the pedophiles are. Even for a short time after
00:22becoming FBI director, in February of 2025, you tweeted, quote, there will be no cover-ups,
00:28no missing documents, no stone left unturned. In June, you told Joe Rogan, quote, we've reviewed
00:35all the information. We're going to give you every single thing we have and can. But then suddenly
00:39in July, everything changed. You and Attorney General Pam Bondi released one video and said
00:47that there was nothing more to see. Your July memo says you uncovered more than 300 gigabytes of data
00:55and physical evidence, but that you had decided no further disclosure would be appropriate or
01:02warranted. That is a quote. I think what happened, Mr. Patel, is that suddenly you discovered that
01:08Donald Trump's name was all over these files and you started a giant cover-up. So you are under oath,
01:16Mr. Patel. You just testified to Mr. Swalwell that you did not speak to the president about the Epstein
01:24files. To your knowledge, did Attorney General Pam Bondi speak to the president about what was in the
01:31Epstein files? I can't speak for Attorney General Pam Bondi. So to your knowledge, you don't have any
01:37information. The question was, do you have any knowledge? Do you have any knowledge? I can't speak.
01:42You are refusing to answer the question. So let me tell you that the Wall Street Journal reported
01:47that in May, Bondi told Trump that he was in the Epstein files and at the same meeting said that
01:54the DOJ did not plan to release the files. Yesterday, you testified to Senator Kennedy that there was
02:01quote, no credible information that Epstein trafficked girls to anyone else and that you have quote,
02:07continuously and publicly asked the public to come forward with more information and we'll look into
02:13it. Today, in response to Mr. Massey's question, you appear to say that the survivors were not
02:22credible. These are survivors. That's not at all what I said. Okay, great. I'm going to ask you this
02:28in a second, but let me tell you about the survivors and let's bring them up here into the room. These are
02:34women who came to the Hill and testified that they were groomed and raped at the age of 14 and 16 years old
02:42and they called to meet with the president and to meet with the FBI and to have people investigate
02:49their claims. Some of them have never testified before. If you are so interested in getting the
02:54public to submit any information, why have you not met with them? You said you haven't met with them.
02:59Have you met with them? I'll give you one more chance.
03:02My job as the FBI director is to invite all investigative leads.
03:05Is the answer yes or no to whether or not you met with these women who were sexually abused
03:11and raped? Any insinuation by you or any people on your side that I am not manhunting child predators
03:19and sex traffickers, just look at the stats. And you talk about cover-ups, man. You talk about
03:25cover-ups. Where were you during the Obama and Biden administrations when these so-called cover-ups
03:32were going on? Why did anyone in those administrations talk to any of these purported witnesses?
03:37Let's get some regular order, Mr. Chairman. I had to welcome every single person to provide
03:40credible information. Time belongs to the gentlelady from Washington. And I'm going to take another
03:44couple of minutes. When you accuse the witness of something, he's allowed to respond. That's how
03:47it works. Listen, he didn't even- Excuse me, Mr. Chairman. You have always been fair,
03:52but this is not fair. No, this is my time. And he said that the witnesses were not credible.
04:00seconds of time. I'm going to get an additional minute of time because that's how much time he
04:04took. You won't get a minute. You'll get some seconds. What we think is under five minutes. You
04:08don't get to demand how much time you get. That's not how it works. Mr. Patel, are the victims
04:14of the Jeffrey Epstein horrific trafficking ring, are they credible? Any person with information about
04:24ongoing sexual trafficking? I'm asking you if they're credible. Ma'am, I'm commenting on the
04:29evidence we have. We have routinely asked for people to come forward with more evidence and we
04:34will look at it. And the evidence that we have was the same evidence that the Biden and Obama
04:39Justice Departments had. And they determined, not me, they determined that that information was not
04:44credible. Mr. Chairman, he's not letting me even ask my questions. You ask the questions, he gives an
04:48answer. You may not like what he says, but that doesn't mean you get to interrupt him. Mr. Chairman,
04:53could we restore the gentlelady 45 seconds so she can complete her question? We will give her
04:56additional 30 seconds, which is what I said earlier. I'm going to keep taking my time.
05:00No, you'll take the time that you get. You get 30 seconds. You are not answering the question.
05:04The question is, is these women, are these women credible? It's a yes or no answer. I have
05:11answered the question. Well, what is the answer? I keep telling you, I'm the only FBI director that has
05:15welcomed new information in this case. This administration is the only one that has welcomed any new
05:20information in this case. Is there a yes or no to whether the victims are credible? Present new
05:27information. Are the victims credible or not? I'll tell you what happened in the last Trump
05:32administration. Are they credible or not? You can't even say. Victims credibly came forward. And you know
05:36what happened? President Trump authorized the indictments of Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump called
05:40them a hoax. Not Biden, not Obama. President Trump called the entire thing a democratic hoax. So I would like to
05:49ask you if you will meet. The gentlelady's time has expired. I gave her the additional 45 seconds
05:52she requested. The gentlelady yields back. The gentleman from New Jersey is recognized for
05:57his five minutes. Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask if you would meet with the women who were sexually
06:00abused and raped and groomed at the ages of 14 and 16 years old. Are you going to cover up? Are you going to
06:10continue to cover up for the rich and powerful men, including those that might be on this committee?
06:17I can yell too, Mr. Chairman, but I don't want to yell about this. The time belongs to the gentleman
06:22from New Jersey. I appreciate the gentlelady yielding back. Are you going to allow them to testify,
06:25Mr. Patel? Will you allow them to testify to you, Mr. Patel? Mr. Patel.
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